{"author":"Morgan Matson","author_id":"Morgan+Matson","total_quotes":45,"quotes":[{"text":"I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["grief"],"id":5747,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"Daddy,' I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. 'I love you.'Just when I was sure he was asleep, the one corner of his mouth lifted in a smile. 'I knew that,' he murmured. 'Always knew that.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["daddies","daughters","fathers","love"],"id":12905,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["amy-and-roger-s-epic-detour","road-trip","summer","summer-road-trip","trip"],"id":25167,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["happy","night","smile","socialite","someone","special"],"id":27225,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["encouragement","gift","practice","talent"],"id":52206,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your friends.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["friends","friendship"],"id":52998,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them...But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["inspirational","travel","young-adult"],"id":63922,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"Anyone else would have probably stayed put---or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["friends","friendship","reunion","since-you-ve-been-gone"],"id":77879,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["death","funeral","loss","surreal","thoughtful"],"id":80175,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"},{"text":"As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just had to stay here facing this terrible truth. I felt, as more tears fell, just how tired I was, a tiredness that had nothing to do with the hour. I was tired of running from this, tired of pretending that things were okay when they had never, ever been less okay.","author":"Morgan Matson","tags":["coping","friendship","let-it-out","numb","sad","tired"],"id":85992,"author_id":"Morgan+Matson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}